Wow, uh, y'all's problems are not my problems. I have extra cars and computers, for one. Not new ones, but extras nonetheless.
I live with my parents, because hey, it's coastal California, and if you want to live here and not throw away money, there's only so many options. My mother is suffering from the latest set of mystery ailments, which when you start with fibromyalgia, it makes it pretty difficult to isolate the signal from the noise. While her heart surgery went very well, she's been in a lot of pain lately. My grandmother died a few months back at 101 years young, and I still think it's a little hard on Mama, being an orphan now.
I've been helping out a friend of mine, who's taking care of her grandmother in a mobile home -- but she's been having back problems, so she's been needing help to get the place cleaned up before management puts the boot down. She's pretty cool -- lots of charisma, and not dumb, did a stint on an entertainment TV show. Name drops celebs a lot. She's recovered most of her life after being in an abusive marriage with a powerful man, which impresses me a lot, but she lost her daughter in the fight and that still stings. She's too blunt, too opinionated, and talks too much -- but these are flaws I can live with, and probably match well with my own selfishness. But I still can't make out whether or not I want to date her -- I feel like there should have been a spark, but I haven't noticed it.
Either way, she has me out and meeting people, and that's great. It's too easy for me as a programmer to sit in front of a screen all the time. I'm in my mid-thirties and if I want to start a family, I really need to get started soon. Like, if I keep going on the path I'm on, I'm pretty sure I'm going to die alone.
Nothing here to cut into creative time too much, though. And it's not like existential issues aren't good for writing. ^_^
I live with my parents, because hey, it's coastal California, and if you want to live here and not throw away money, there's only so many options. My mother is suffering from the latest set of mystery ailments, which when you start with fibromyalgia, it makes it pretty difficult to isolate the signal from the noise. While her heart surgery went very well, she's been in a lot of pain lately. My grandmother died a few months back at 101 years young, and I still think it's a little hard on Mama, being an orphan now.
I've been helping out a friend of mine, who's taking care of her grandmother in a mobile home -- but she's been having back problems, so she's been needing help to get the place cleaned up before management puts the boot down. She's pretty cool -- lots of charisma, and not dumb, did a stint on an entertainment TV show. Name drops celebs a lot. She's recovered most of her life after being in an abusive marriage with a powerful man, which impresses me a lot, but she lost her daughter in the fight and that still stings. She's too blunt, too opinionated, and talks too much -- but these are flaws I can live with, and probably match well with my own selfishness. But I still can't make out whether or not I want to date her -- I feel like there should have been a spark, but I haven't noticed it.
Either way, she has me out and meeting people, and that's great. It's too easy for me as a programmer to sit in front of a screen all the time. I'm in my mid-thirties and if I want to start a family, I really need to get started soon. Like, if I keep going on the path I'm on, I'm pretty sure I'm going to die alone.
Nothing here to cut into creative time too much, though. And it's not like existential issues aren't good for writing. ^_^
"Kitto daijoubu da yo." - Sakura Kinomoto